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Uttar Pradesh: Noida cops bust drug racket financed by cryptocurrency and run on Telagram

The drug peddlers ordered their drugs online and received them from the US through flight couriers and paid for them through cryptocurrency and bitcoins to avoid detection. The police are investigating how did these drugs get past the customs undetected. The gang was lured through an order placed by police officers posing as buyers.

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Updated Sep 20, 2022, 23:25 IST

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Noida: Noida police busted a gang of drug dealers who were importing high quality drugs from the United States and supplying the same to students across the Delhi-NCR. The trio were ordering the drugs online and paying for the same through cryptocurrency and bitcoins in order to avoid being tracked by the police.

Police said that the drugs were being brought into India through couriers in flight. The police are now trying to find out how did the drugs escape being detected by the customs.

The three men arrested have been identified as Bhanu, Adhiraj and Sonu Kumar — all from Surajkund in Faridabad and police recovered drugs worth Rs 29 from the trio. Police said the trio dealt in high end drugs like MDMA, ecstasy and OG (original grower California weed), Times of India reported.

Briefing the media Abhishek Verma, deputy commissioner of police (Greater Noida) said that once we got information about these drug peddlers, we formed a team. The DCP himself posed as a buyer and placed an order on social media. The three were lured to come to the LG roundabout in Surajpur and were arrested there.

“Sonu Kumar would run a group on Telegram that had over 250 students from across NCR as members. The accused would share pictures of the drugs with the customers and take orders.

The arrested accused were booked under the NDPS Act. They were produced before a magistrate and sent to jail,” Verma said.

The district police, he said, were working with their counterparts in other states and the Narcotics Control Bureau to find out how far and wide the gang had spread its tentacles.

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